Re: [PATCH v5 00/15] x86: Add support for Clang CFI

Alexander Lobakin
2021-10-21T10:27:27Z

From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 11:16:43 -0700

> This series adds support for Clang's Control-Flow Integrity (CFI)
> checking to x86_64. With CFI, the compiler injects a runtime
> check before each indirect function call to ensure the target is
> a valid function with the correct static type. This restricts
> possible call targets and makes it more difficult for an attacker
> to exploit bugs that allow the modification of stored function
> pointers. For more details, see:
>
> https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html
>
> Note that v5 is based on tip/master. The first two patches contain
> objtool support for CFI, the remaining patches change function
> declarations to use opaque types, fix type mismatch issues that
> confuse the compiler, and disable CFI where it can't be used.
>
> You can also pull this series from
>
> https://github.com/samitolvanen/linux.git x86-cfi-v5

[ snip ]

I've been using it since the end of May on my x86_64, so for v5
(with changing retpoline thunks prototypes to opaque):

Reviwed-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
Tested-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>

Thanks!
Al